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1、老托福听力PartC原文最新整合 为了让大家更好的准备托福考试,给大家整理老托福听力PartC原文,下面就和大家分享,来欣赏一下吧。老托福听力PartC原文1One reason oceanographers analyze the sediment on the ocean floor is to see how long-term changes in Earths temperature have affected the depth of the ocean.海洋学家分析海底沉积物的一个原因是要看看地球温度的长期变化是如何影响海洋深度的。By analyzing the remains
2、 of sea animals in old layers of ocean sediment, oceanographers can determine the depth of the ocean in the past.通过分析在海洋沉积物的古老的层次中的海洋动物遗骸,海洋学家能判定在过去海洋的深度。Theyve analyzed hundreds of such layers, including some from the coldest periods of Earths historythe ice ages.他们已经分析了成百上千这样的层次,包括了一些来自地球历史上最冷的时期冰
3、河时代(的layers)。What theyve found is that during the ice ages, the amount of water in the oceans decreased.他们已经发现的是在冰河时代的期间,在海洋中水的数量是减少的。Water levels in the ocean dropped by about four hundred feet.水位在海洋中下降了大约四百英尺。Water from the ocean evaporated and became frozen in continental glaciers, so it didnt dr
4、ain back into the ocean.来自海洋的水蒸发并且在大陆冰川上成为冰冻的(形式),所以它没有回流进海洋里。When temperatures eventually rose again, the glaciers melted, and the oceans returned to their former depths.当温度最终再次上升,冰川融化了,然后海洋回到了它们从前的深度。Analysis of sedimentary data indicates that periods of glacial freezing and melting occurred in re
5、gular cycles of twenty thousand, forty thousand, and one hundred thousand years.对沉积物的数据分析指出了冰川的冰冻期和融化期发生在两万,四万和十万年的有规律的周期。Oceanographers are interested in the history of seawater levels because they hope to use this historical data in order to predict the possible effect that global warming could ha
6、ve on seawater levels.海洋学家对海水水位的历史感兴趣是因为他们希望使用这种历史性数据以便预测全球变暖能对海水水位(产生的)可能性的影响。If industrial pollutants are capable of heating global temperatures to the point that glaciers begin to melt, it is urgent for us to know precisely how high sea levels will rise as a result.如果工业污染物能够加热全球的温度到达冰川开始融化的点,对我们来
7、说精确地知道最终海水水位将上升多高是当务之急。老托福听力PartC原文2Now lets focus on comics in the 1950s.现在让我们集中在二十世纪五十年代的漫画上。Early in the decade sales were down, so publishers started looking for some new angle to get their readers interested again.在(五十年代的)早期,(漫画)销量下滑,于是出版商开始寻找一些新的角度来让他们的读者重新感兴趣。They found what they were looking
8、 for with horror comics, stories about ghosts and demons that were often graphically violent.他们发现所寻找的,关于惊险连环漫画的,关于幽灵和恶魔故事的,通常都是鲜明的暴力的。Before long, most of the major publishers were printing horror comics, but it all came to an end a few years later.不久,绝大多数的大出版商都在印刷惊险连环画,但在几年之后这一切都结束了。You see, there
9、was a psychologist named Frederic Wertham who claimed that comic books, the horror books in particular, were a bad influence on children and turned them into juvenile delinquents.你看,有一个叫Frederic Wertham的心理学家声称,漫画书,尤其是惊险连环画,对孩子是一个坏的影响,并且把他们变成了少年犯。Wertham even wrote a book called Seduction of the Inno
10、cent that showed specific scenes from comics that he thought were a particularly bad influence on kids.Wertham甚至写了一部书叫做Seduction of the Innocent(纯真的诱惑),展示了他认为是一个对孩子影响特别恶劣的来自漫画的特殊场景。Wertham wasnt the only one down on comics.Wertham并不是唯一一个反对漫画的。The United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinqu
11、ency also released a report very critical of comics.关于青少年犯罪的美国参议院附属委员会也发布了一个报告,对漫画表示谴责。The result of all this fuss was the creation of the Comics Code Authority in 1955.所有的这些争论的结果是,在1955年,漫画准则管理局的创立。This is a self-censoring body created by the publishers.这个是由出版商建立的自我检查的主体。Essentially, for a comic bo
12、ok to be approved by the code;it had to be free of the blood and gore that was usually depicted in most horror comics, and evil could never triumph over good.基本上,对于要经过“准则”批准的一部漫画书,它必须是没有通常大部分惊险连环画所描述的血腥的,而且邪恶的永远不能战胜好的。Children had to be shown that crime did not pay.孩子们必须被告知犯罪得不偿失Well, if comic sales
13、 were bad in 1950, things got even worse in 1955.好吧,如果漫画销售在1950年不好,事情到了1955就更糟糕了。Many small publishers actually went out of business.许多小出版商最终停业了。But the industry rebounded by introducing a new lineup of superheroes, characters like Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four.但是(漫画)工业回升了,是由于介绍了一个新的超级英雄的阵容,像蜘蛛侠
14、和神奇四侠一样的角色。Now, Ive brought with me today some comic books from this era to pass around.现在,我今天带来了一些来自这个时期的漫画书来传看一下。Theyre from my own personal collection, so please be extra careful when handling them.它们来自我自己的个人收藏,所以请在触摸的时候格外小心。老托福听力PartC原文3As you probably know, log structures are gaining in popular
15、ity.你们可能知道,原木结构正在获得普及(越来越受欢迎)。They are no longer just the simple country homes that we think of as the traditional log cabin.它们不再仅仅是我们当作传统的小木屋来想象的简单的乡间住宅。Some upscale homes now incorporate natural round logs in ceiling beams and walls.现在一些高档住宅在平顶梁和墙壁中包含了自然的圆木。People seem to think the rounded logs gi
16、ve their homes a cozy, warm atmosphere.人们似乎认为圆形的原木给予他们的家一个舒适的,温暖的气氛。And even people who want to build a traditional log cabin on their own can buy a kit with precut logs that fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.以至于想凭他们自己建造一个传统小木屋的人,能买一套组装在一起像拼图游戏的部件,按规格裁切好的原木配件。Before showing you some slides
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